Re: Moonlight License???
Bruce Clement <[email protected]> Tue, 1 Nov 2011 23:51:51 +1300
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On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 10:47 PM, Nevyn <[email protected]> wrote: > Is anyone else confused about moonlight? > > Under http://www.mono-project.com/Moonlight#Licensing: > > > Moonlight 1.0 is licensed under the terms of the GNU LGPL, it is a pure C++ > engine. > > Moonlight 2.0 contains code that is licensed under the terms of the GNU > LGPL and the MIT X11 licenses, it includes the graphical C++ engine, the > Mono > Runtime <http://www.mono-project.com/Mono:Runtime> and the Mono class > libraries. > > Novell release Mono under several different licences. Moonlight contains Mono code so will contain code under those licences. The class libraries use the X11 licence. >From http://www.mono-project.com/Licensing * "What license or licenses are you using for the Mono Project? * "We use four open source licenses: - The C# compiler is dual-licensed under the MIT/X11 license and the GNU General Public License<http://www.opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.html>(GPL). - The tools are released under the terms of the GNU General Public License <http://www.opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.html> (GPL). - The runtime libraries are under the GNU Library GPL 2.0<http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/library.html#TOC1>(LGPL 2.0). - The class libraries are released under the terms of the MIT X11<http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html>license. - ASP.NET MVC, the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF), the Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR), System.Data.Services.Client, parts of System.Numerics and ASP.NET AJAX client software are released by Microsoft under the open source Microsoft Permissive License<http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ms-pl.html>, some of them are dual licensed also as Apache2<http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0> -- Bruce Clement Home: http://www.clement.co.nz/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/Bruce_Clement Directory: http://www.searchme.co.nz/ "Before attempting to create something new, it is vital to have a good appreciation of everything that already exists in this field." Mikhail Kalashnikov _______________________________________________ NZLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.linux.net.nz/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nzlug